2) By law you have to allow the offending party a chance to fixt the problem. A reasonable amount of time to rewrite parts of a kernel is 6 months (in my opinion). SCO knows that if they release the offenses, the linux community will act in good faith, and within a very short period of time (6 days?) their IP will be expunged from the main kernel tree. SCO's buisness model relys on the community NOT opperating in good faith. They are trying to make it look that way to the clueless justice system in this country.
3) This is all just a MS ploy to weeken linux. SCO is irrelivant and all that matters is the FUD they create. If the DOJ, or anyone else kills them, it doesn't matter. They hurt linux which is what the powers at be wanted.
I know! It is exactly what the RIAA and MPAA are doing:
1) New technology comes along and obsoletes a buissness model 2) Old buisness model uses power to by law outlawing new, better technology, rather than adapt
Seems reasonalbe to me.
The government of Panama is just a little less capable than the US. The US goverment would have made it illegal to discuss which port any service was on including in research paper.:/
The guy told me the same thing, then he moved the mouse, realized he had never seen a password prompt like that and just said, "ok, I'll just leave it with you. Please sign here."
The best be is just to tell them you will install it and thank you. Make them not let you pay them if they won't agree to it.
We already have 4 dual processor (2x1.4gHz) suns running linux on the way. I'm very curious to see how the new sun achitecture compares to a slightly fast dual athlon running linux. Sun is starting to cover the clock speed gap. Will they keep the good architecture or pull an intel and downgrade P4 style? I wonder.
those licence plugs you had to put on the parallel port to run a given software package.
You know why complanies didn't use them long? Because people would buy more expensive or less featured software just to avoid them after having encounter them once.
My previous just was a lead software engineer for a small custom software company. After working for a whilte I decidced to return to grad school. About the time I needed to start looking for a job near or at the university, the company I worked for went under. As it turns out, I was hired on campus as a system analyst (big change after spening a year designing and developing softare).
I work for two departments. One is absoultly a pleasure (I just got buying a nice cluster and I'm working on web based classrooms), the other is pretty boring (mostly just user support BS). Basicly, my point is, it will be hit or miss. If you end up in a position where your superiors are willing to let you run and do some cool projects it can be great fun. The budget isn't always big, but you might get to play with technology or projects that wouldn't be deemed profit capable in the private sector.
Actually the smallish budgets make it more interesting in my opinion. They add a new deminsion. You have to be creative. You can't just go to "Joes Internet Learning" and buy a solution. You have to assemble and invent your own.
It won't happen. They will threaten and try to prevent it, but when push come to shove, they make lots of money when a movie is brocast on HBO, Showtime, etc. They make even more when it is shown on network TV. They won't turn down the revenue in the end... If they can't prevent it, they will still allow their movies to be broadcast. They tried the same sh*t with VHS rentals.
What is really need is for the tech industry to say "fine, don't sell your content! oh wait that is your buisness - damn, I guess you either use our hardware of go out of buisness!"
An order of magnitude in space will likely mean the end (or least relegation to transmission) of compression for storing media. Why compress digital music to 2 chanel, mp3 when I can store, unencoded all the music everyone I know owns in 6 channel, 88kHz uncompressed, not tax my processor unencoding it and still use only a fraction of my disk.
It is also concevable that digital video will transition from the low res trash we have now to high res (1024x768 is a good average resolution from what I see around my department, ceartanly in 10 years people will be running more than this).
Uncompressed, 1024x768 video running at 24 frame a second (surely we can do better than that) uses 56mb/s that equates to about 5 hours per tera byte uncompressed. I think 120Tb will proove completely insufficient.
He basicly fails to take into acount the fact that software developers develop software to use the resourses available. It is currently unrealistic to store a large volume music so we have MP3 and OGG. Video runs along the same lines. More space = more freedom for developers and media.
We use dual processor machines to run simulations (particle physics). We have 3 dual 1.7gig Xeon/RDRAM setups and several 1800+ MP/DDR setups. The 1800+ setups will complete the same amount of work as the xeons in 75% of the time! I thought they were better, but I didn't think they were that much better. That is a 1.53gig machine completeing the same work as a 1.7 gig machine (with faster memmory) in 75% of the time.
Our application, as you can imagine, is very floating point intensive.
There are tons of things you can do to any car, electronic or not. The cost varies. It is more expensive to change the injection system on my supra then it would be to go down and by a 1000 CFM carb for a Olds 442, but it happens, alot. I know tons of people with mods from built in play stations to race built motor. Look at the tuner crowd. Some go for flash, some go for speed (my personal addiction). Many of these tuners work on high tech vehicles Supras for example have every gatget including variable valve time, but (or because of) this doesn't stop people. Check out MKIV.com for a look into the Supra world. iworld.com is home for Subaru tuners (WRX is becoming a tuner car).
Linux will not truely be viable for the Enterprise until it is entirely 64 bit, not just the kernel. We (a major university that works with geophysical data sets that are large - like corperate datasets) have to kludge around the 2gb limit emposed by utilities like gzip. Without 64bit apps, a 64bit kernel is off little use.
People would start orginizing pages in even more convoluted a manner than they do now. Now it takes traveling through 5 pages of product info to download a driver, after this, 100.
Several people have made comments about how linux will not be truely competative until any joe can stick it in isntall and reboot:
I work as a IT person. In the last two months I have done ~10 linux and ~10 windows installs.
Total problems that caused install to take more than 2 hours with WinNT/98 - 6
Total problems that caused install to take more than 2 hours with RedHat 7.1/7.2 - 1
I'm not the average person, but if you just want to pop a cd in and go, redhat is MUCH better than any MS OS has ever been (although I haven't been able to try the XP install).
We use large files (one servey file can span 20+ 40Gb ddr tapes). We have multiple sets. We are a university (we don't play with the real thing - just the "toy" sets). We could easily fill several terrabytes with todays servey technology. New technology will likely increase the amount of data for any given servey at a polynomial or exponential rate. We don't need it today, but the old cluster may need it in the future to process (and store) the files.
It sounds like DirectFB would make an excelent video abstraction layer (i.e. the driver layer) and X could then sit on top of it (i.e. remove all the driver's from XFree86 and add a DirectFB driver - you could still install XFree86 with a driver if your don't like DirectFB - no one is locked in either way). This would not be all that different from DirectX on windows. Software could bypass X and use the video driver (and hardware) directly while other software used X through gtk, qt,..., etc.
I'm an athiest. I agree. If praying, driving, punching a wall, whatever helps someone deal with this it should be encurages. I personaly will do my greiving with sword and sheild, tank and missle.
We will honor the dead by the way we continue to live our lives and together we will continue as a country and as a world.
Retaliation must be swift and inclusive. It must include EVERYONE who has in recent history targeted, threatened or aided terroist activity against the US. It must be devistating. The world knows what wse are capable of (look at many of the countries that have been fighting the "western devil." They are all condolences. They know better than to antaganize us. No matter. Affganastane must either submit to a short occumpation (for the purposes of eleminating the terrorist activities there) or face war with us. The same goes for other countries in the same position.
Our retaliation must NOT be against American citizins simply because they are preceived to be from the same ethnic group as the terrorist. That would be an injustice of equal proprtions.
I found myself wanting to break someone in half this morning. I go to a large public university with many non citizens. I was ashamed of myself for the breif laps.
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Well, there are a couple possible reasons:
1) It doesn't exist (most likely).
2) By law you have to allow the offending party a chance to fixt the problem. A reasonable amount of time to rewrite parts of a kernel is 6 months (in my opinion). SCO knows that if they release the offenses, the linux community will act in good faith, and within a very short period of time (6 days?) their IP will be expunged from the main kernel tree. SCO's buisness model relys on the community NOT opperating in good faith. They are trying to make it look that way to the clueless justice system in this country.
3) This is all just a MS ploy to weeken linux. SCO is irrelivant and all that matters is the FUD they create. If the DOJ, or anyone else kills them, it doesn't matter. They hurt linux which is what the powers at be wanted.
That Mozilla's site has been completely revamped over night...
Alot of stuff happening at one time...
I know! It is exactly what the RIAA and MPAA are doing:
:/
1) New technology comes along and obsoletes a buissness model
2) Old buisness model uses power to by law outlawing new, better technology, rather than adapt
Seems reasonalbe to me.
The government of Panama is just a little less capable than the US. The US goverment would have made it illegal to discuss which port any service was on including in research paper.
The guy told me the same thing, then he moved the mouse, realized he had never seen a password prompt like that and just said, "ok, I'll just leave it with you. Please sign here."
The best be is just to tell them you will install it and thank you. Make them not let you pay them if they won't agree to it.
Andrew
We already have 4 dual processor (2x1.4gHz) suns running linux on the way. I'm very curious to see how the new sun achitecture compares to a slightly fast dual athlon running linux. Sun is starting to cover the clock speed gap. Will they keep the good architecture or pull an intel and downgrade P4 style? I wonder.
those licence plugs you had to put on the parallel port to run a given software package.
You know why complanies didn't use them long? Because people would buy more expensive or less featured software just to avoid them after having encounter them once.
My previous just was a lead software engineer for a small custom software company. After working for a whilte I decidced to return to grad school. About the time I needed to start looking for a job near or at the university, the company I worked for went under. As it turns out, I was hired on campus as a system analyst (big change after spening a year designing and developing softare).
I work for two departments. One is absoultly a pleasure (I just got buying a nice cluster and I'm working on web based classrooms), the other is pretty boring (mostly just user support BS). Basicly, my point is, it will be hit or miss. If you end up in a position where your superiors are willing to let you run and do some cool projects it can be great fun. The budget isn't always big, but you might get to play with technology or projects that wouldn't be deemed profit capable in the private sector.
Actually the smallish budgets make it more interesting in my opinion. They add a new deminsion. You have to be creative. You can't just go to "Joes Internet Learning" and buy a solution. You have to assemble and invent your own.
It won't happen. They will threaten and try to prevent it, but when push come to shove, they make lots of money when a movie is brocast on HBO, Showtime, etc. They make even more when it is shown on network TV. They won't turn down the revenue in the end... If they can't prevent it, they will still allow their movies to be broadcast. They tried the same sh*t with VHS rentals.
What is really need is for the tech industry to say "fine, don't sell your content! oh wait that is your buisness - damn, I guess you either use our hardware of go out of buisness!"
Put them in their place.
And of course, AMD beat them to the punch requiring the 6' fan 2 years earlier...
An order of magnitude in space will likely mean the end (or least relegation to transmission) of compression for storing media. Why compress digital music to 2 chanel, mp3 when I can store, unencoded all the music everyone I know owns in 6 channel, 88kHz uncompressed, not tax my processor unencoding it and still use only a fraction of my disk.
It is also concevable that digital video will transition from the low res trash we have now to high res (1024x768 is a good average resolution from what I see around my department, ceartanly in 10 years people will be running more than this).
Uncompressed, 1024x768 video running at 24 frame a second (surely we can do better than that) uses 56mb/s that equates to about 5 hours per tera byte uncompressed. I think 120Tb will proove completely insufficient.
He basicly fails to take into acount the fact that software developers develop software to use the resourses available. It is currently unrealistic to store a large volume music so we have MP3 and OGG. Video runs along the same lines. More space = more freedom for developers and media.
We use dual processor machines to run simulations (particle physics). We have 3 dual 1.7gig Xeon/RDRAM setups and several 1800+ MP/DDR setups. The 1800+ setups will complete the same amount of work as the xeons in 75% of the time! I thought they were better, but I didn't think they were that much better. That is a 1.53gig machine completeing the same work as a 1.7 gig machine (with faster memmory) in 75% of the time.
Our application, as you can imagine, is very floating point intensive.
How soon until sufficient AI exists to automate the process, and mobile justice can be handed out Judge Dredd style?
What do you mean? Computer AI has been capable of making the kind of uninformed and un-insightful decisions judges make for at lease 20 years.
What a moron...
we can't implement digital rights managment in (insert free os name here) because MS holds the patent. Sorry.
There are tons of things you can do to any car, electronic or not. The cost varies. It is more expensive to change the injection system on my supra then it would be to go down and by a 1000 CFM carb for a Olds 442, but it happens, alot. I know tons of people with mods from built in play stations to race built motor. Look at the tuner crowd. Some go for flash, some go for speed (my personal addiction). Many of these tuners work on high tech vehicles Supras for example have every gatget including variable valve time, but (or because of) this doesn't stop people. Check out MKIV.com for a look into the Supra world. iworld.com is home for Subaru tuners (WRX is becoming a tuner car).
to re-encode... cancel anytime.
The music industry will continue to SUCK until artists publish directly to the web themselves.
Linux will not truely be viable for the Enterprise until it is entirely 64 bit, not just the kernel. We (a major university that works with geophysical data sets that are large - like corperate datasets) have to kludge around the 2gb limit emposed by utilities like gzip. Without 64bit apps, a 64bit kernel is off little use.
People would start orginizing pages in even more convoluted a manner than they do now. Now it takes traveling through 5 pages of product info to download a driver, after this, 100.
are truely akin...
There is a reason we called them Sales Slimes...
Several people have made comments about how linux will not be truely competative until any joe can stick it in isntall and reboot:
I work as a IT person. In the last two months I have done ~10 linux and ~10 windows installs.
Total problems that caused install to take more than 2 hours with WinNT/98 - 6
Total problems that caused install to take more than 2 hours with RedHat 7.1/7.2 - 1
I'm not the average person, but if you just want to pop a cd in and go, redhat is MUCH better than any MS OS has ever been (although I haven't been able to try the XP install).
We use large files (one servey file can span 20+ 40Gb ddr tapes). We have multiple sets. We are a university (we don't play with the real thing - just the "toy" sets). We could easily fill several terrabytes with todays servey technology. New technology will likely increase the amount of data for any given servey at a polynomial or exponential rate. We don't need it today, but the old cluster may need it in the future to process (and store) the files.
It sounds like DirectFB would make an excelent video abstraction layer (i.e. the driver layer) and X could then sit on top of it (i.e. remove all the driver's from XFree86 and add a DirectFB driver - you could still install XFree86 with a driver if your don't like DirectFB - no one is locked in either way). This would not be all that different from DirectX on windows. Software could bypass X and use the video driver (and hardware) directly while other software used X through gtk, qt, ..., etc.
I'm an athiest. I agree. If praying, driving, punching a wall, whatever helps someone deal with this it should be encurages. I personaly will do my greiving with sword and sheild, tank and missle.
We will honor the dead by the way we continue to live our lives and together we will continue as a country and as a world.
Andrew
Retaliation must be swift and inclusive. It must include EVERYONE who has in recent history targeted, threatened or aided terroist activity against the US. It must be devistating. The world knows what wse are capable of (look at many of the countries that have been fighting the "western devil." They are all condolences. They know better than to antaganize us. No matter. Affganastane must either submit to a short occumpation (for the purposes of eleminating the terrorist activities there) or face war with us. The same goes for other countries in the same position.
Our retaliation must NOT be against American citizins simply because they are preceived to be from the same ethnic group as the terrorist. That would be an injustice of equal proprtions.
I found myself wanting to break someone in half this morning. I go to a large public university with many non citizens. I was ashamed of myself for the breif laps.
One tower has collapsed. A plane crashed into the pentegon (from tv news - don't know which).